How to Find Almost Anyone’s Email Address

Each sub-section of this template is a different method of finding emails. Work through the steps in each section until you find the correct email.

Surface-level Google Search:

Look up the person's name on Google

Go to their website

LinkedIn Search:

If not, look for them on LinkedIn

Look for email using Rapportive

Personal Website Search:

Check their website

Look them up on Whois

Twitter Search:

Use their Twitter handle to search on Rapportive

Google+ Search:

Look for Email using Google+

Decoding their Company Email Structure:

Use http://email-format.com/ to decode the structure

Use this table of the most common formats to make a guess

Check if you're right by putting it in Rapportive

If you can't find a format, create a list of permutations:

Make a copy of this spreadsheet and fill in your data

Check the list in MailTester.com

Surface-level Google Search:

Look up the person's name on Google

Search their name in Google.

Go to their website

LinkedIn Search:

If not, look for them on LinkedIn

Look for email using Rapportive

If you're using Rapportive for the first time, this will help you get to grips with it.

1) Download Rapportive

3) Once Rapportive is added to Gmail, guess different combinations using examples like the ones listed below:

Combinations you can try

Look for LinkedIn information using these different combinations in your Gmail account

Personal Website Search:

Check their website

Look for their Email ID on their personal website.

You can always look under Contact or Our team.

Look them up on Whois

Search their email using their website domain

Search for website domain on http://www.whois.com/
Website name should be in www.domainname.com format

NOTE: To confirm, copy the email address and match the ID with LinkedIn Profile using Rapportive

Twitter Search:

Use their Twitter handle to search on Rapportive

Look for Email using Person's Twitter Handle name

Copy their Twitter handle and search it in Rapportive.

For example:

[email protected] ([email protected])

You should also use free email domain names like:

gmail.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, aol.com

Here's the email ID you were looking for.

Google+ Search:

Look for Email using Google+

Search for a contact's email using a free domain, like gmail.com

Look for the contacts G+ Profile, and sometimes that will display their email address too.

Decoding their Company Email Structure:

Use http://email-format.com/ to decode the structure

If you were looking for an editor at Fast Company who didn't have a publicly listed email address, you could search to decode the structure. For example on this site:

Seeing that the format is firstinitiallastname@domain, you can now guess that Erin Schulte's email address is [email protected].

Use this table of the most common formats to make a guess

Check if you're right by putting it in Rapportive

See step 6 ^

If you can't find a format, create a list of permutations:

Make a copy of this spreadsheet and fill in your data

Here's a spreadsheet provided by HubSpot for creating a list of possible email addresses you can check: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s0vi5sbU6zIKZNt1RmTiD4C8AjnP--U2T_EnCjYLeI4/edit#gid=0

Make a copy of this in your own Google Sheets account by going 'File > Make a Copy'.

Replace the generic info with your contact's details and to generate a list of possibilities.

Check the list in MailTester.com

Paste your options into MailTester.com one by one to verify that the email address exists.

This should be a last resort because it's time intensive.

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